How do you get buy-in from deans and academic leaders?

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Participants at Bow Valley College meeting were interviewed. Here is what they suggested:

• personal contact / networking rapport
• representation - champions at various levels in the departments/faculties
• providing - evidence, anecdotes, stories, feedback (participant), not only are we doing - other institutions (non-academic & academic) also run ISWs
• Looking for leader participation in ISW
• Lessening the impact of losing participants & facilitators from day to day functions
• timing - key events
• Pomote by: How does this help them - teachers & students
• value identified in strategic documents
• grants / awards
• systematic evidence
• buy-in message
• process